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Academic Applications Forum

Jisc, Bridgewater Meeting Room, 6th Floor, Churchgate House , 56 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 6EU

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This meeting has been postponed until further notice

10.30 - Refreshments

11.00 – 12.30 - Presentation or discussion to be confirmed

12:30 – 13:30 - Lunch

13:30 – 16.30 (approx) - AAF Meeting

Agenda

  1. Apologies for absence
  2. Minutes of the previous meeting
  3. Actions arising from the minutes not covered by the agenda
  4. Date and place of next and next‐but‐one meeting
  5. The topic for presentation at the next meeting
  6. Chest Agreement Update – Chest Report
  7. Report from UCISA Software Procurement Subgroup
  8. Microsoft licensing and Office 365
  9. Devices (management and application delivery)
  10. Applications Software
    1. Bibliographic Software, publishing and authoring
    2. Office Applications
    3. Graphics, Visualisation, and Multi‐media
    4. Mathematics, Statistics, Scientific and Engineering Applications
    5. Programming Languages and Applications Development Tools
    6. GIS software
    7. Assistive software
    8. Desktop virtualisation
    9. Server virtualisation
    10. Cloud infrastructure
    11. SAM
    12. Server and back-­‐end software
    13. Other Software (including software associated with data sets)
  11. Any Other Business

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